Jatiya Oikya Front extends support to BNP’s hartal

Photo: Courtesy
Photo: Courtesy

Jatiya Oikya Front on Saturday extended its support to a dawn-to-dusk hartal (general strike) called by Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in the city on Sunday protesting what they said vote rigging in the elections to Dhaka south and north city corporations, reports UNB.

A press release, signed by Oikya Front’s office secretary Jahangir Alam Mintu, said alliance convener Kamal Hossain and other steering committee members extended support to BNP’s hartal.

Earlier, BNP called a dawn-to-dusk hartal in Dhaka for Sunday protesting “massive vote frauds” in the elections to Dhaka south and north city corporations.

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made the announcement at a press conference at the party’s Naya Paltan central office on Saturday evening.

“We totally turn down the election results. The election results were manipulated influencing the election process. To register our protest against it, we call hartal for tomorrow (Sunday). This hartal will be observed from 6:00am to 6:00pm in Dhaka city,” he said.

The BNP leader said their shutdown is also meant for registering their party’s protest against the ‘massive vote rigging and frauds and stampeding the people’s verdict by force.

He hoped that the city dwellers will observe the hartal peacefully and thus cooperate with their party to ‘restore’ democracy.

Fakhrul said ambulances, hearse, medicine and food shops will remain out of purview of the hartal.